From his book web site.
The man aborted the mission because they were outnumbered?
In late November of 2001 forty members of the US Army’s super secret counterterrorist unit known as Delta Force were sent to the Tora Bora Mountains in eastern Afghanistan to kill terrorist mastermind Usama Bin Laden.
These Delta operators had help; about as good as you can get. They linked up with a handful of CIA operatives, Army Green Berets, British Commandos, Air Force Combat Controllers, and a few Tactical Signal Collectors to lead a small Army of Afghan Mujahideen against bin Laden and a thousand or so of his most dedicated al Qaeda fighters.
KILL BIN LADEN is a story about the heroes Dalton Fury had the privilege of calling teammates and friends. It honors these Delta Force operators who necessarily remain anonymous, unsung, dedicated, and still very busy.
KILL BIN LADEN also sets the record straight about what happened in battle, and what didn’t happen, at a time when our nation was still in deep mourning over the horrific attack on September 11th, 2001.
Fury’s eyewitness account is the never before told true story .
Afgan partners drew their weapons on Delta force.
“Officer: Best Plan To Kill Osama Was Nixed
Wants To Set The Record Straight On The 2001 Hunt For Bin Laden At Tora Bora
(CBS) The man who led the Pentagon’s mission to kill Osama bin Laden says the Afghan allies he was forced to use may have undermined his operation. He also tells correspondent Scott Pelley his superiors scuttled the most effective plan of attack against the al Qaeda leader.
The former Delta Force officer, who uses the pseudonym “Dalton Fury,” tells his story for the first time on 60 Minutes, this Sunday, Oct. 5, at 7 p.m. ET/PT.
Ten weeks after 9/11, Fury and a team of U.S. Army Delta Force soldiers joined CIA operatives and Afghan fighters known as mujahideen under the command of a warlord named General Hazrat Ali, to whom the CIA paid millions in cash. The Americans and Afghans pursued bin Laden and an estimated 1,000 al Qaeda fighters into the Tora Bora Mountains, near the border with Pakistan. The U.S. strategy, says Fury, was to let Afghan allies do most of the fighting, while U.S. Special Operations Forces directed air strikes and provided support.
The problem, according to Fury, was that Ali’s mujahideen would attack up the mountain by day and retreat at night, giving up territory they’d won. Today, Fury wonders whether some of the supposedly friendly Afghans were really conspiring with al Qaeda. “The mujahideen would go up and get into a skirmish…lose a guy or two, maybe kill an al-Qaeda guy or two and then they leave…almost like it was an agreement…Put on a good show and then leave,” recalls Fury, a retired Army major.”
Afgan partners drew their weapons on Delta force.
“Officer: Best Plan To Kill Osama Was Nixed
Wants To Set The Record Straight On The 2001 Hunt For Bin Laden At Tora Bora
(CBS) The man who led the Pentagon’s mission to kill Osama bin Laden says the Afghan allies he was forced to use may have undermined his operation. He also tells correspondent Scott Pelley his superiors scuttled the most effective plan of attack against the al Qaeda leader.
The former Delta Force officer, who uses the pseudonym “Dalton Fury,” tells his story for the first time on 60 Minutes, this Sunday, Oct. 5, at 7 p.m. ET/PT.
Ten weeks after 9/11, Fury and a team of U.S. Army Delta Force soldiers joined CIA operatives and Afghan fighters known as mujahideen under the command of a warlord named General Hazrat Ali, to whom the CIA paid millions in cash. The Americans and Afghans pursued bin Laden and an estimated 1,000 al Qaeda fighters into the Tora Bora Mountains, near the border with Pakistan. The U.S. strategy, says Fury, was to let Afghan allies do most of the fighting, while U.S. Special Operations Forces directed air strikes and provided support.
The problem, according to Fury, was that Ali’s mujahideen would attack up the mountain by day and retreat at night, giving up territory they’d won. Today, Fury wonders whether some of the supposedly friendly Afghans were really conspiring with al Qaeda. “The mujahideen would go up and get into a skirmish…lose a guy or two, maybe kill an al-Qaeda guy or two and then they leave…almost like it was an agreement…Put on a good show and then leave,” recalls Fury, a retired Army major.”